[tronical]

One of the lesson that I believe is being learned is that general purpose programming languages for UIs make it difficult to do tooling, especially with dynamic typing.

This particular approach (.60) is not a general purpose programming language and it's strongly typed.

It's designed for the user interface, not for writing the rest of the program in it.

I feel this is rather different from the tcl/tk applications we used to see?

[pjmlp]

As Lisp, Smalltalk, Dylan and Postscript have proven during the early days, it is possible.

The problem is that current generations cannot see beyond their vi/emacs CLI setups and are too invested into HTML/CS/JS stacks to see otherwise.

Some quickly picked examples,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

"Smalltalk usage for UI prototyping in Thales industrial context"

https://youtu.be/Oq1RSDn2P5Y?t=1030

"Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828622

Which by the way, makes the binding Objective-C / Smalltalk /Lisp in UI design.

[igouy]

Lost the Smalltalk content on youtube, so

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02966704/document